Torgyle Bridge

Heritage listing

Category A Date Added 05/10/1971 Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Parish Urquhart And Glenmoriston NGR NH 30909 12923 Coordinates 230909, 812923 — Joseph Mitchell, 1823 after earlier bridge by Thomas Telford. c. 1811. Large, 3-span bridge, and centre arch being slightly wider and higher. Tooled and pinned rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. 3 segmental-headed tooled ashlar rings, the dressings being alternate blocks of dark schist and lighter granite, springing from rusticated masonry cutwater abutments. Cutwaters rise as engaged columns, diminishing in girth and decorated with dummy vertical and cruciform slits, terminating at parapet level with simple blocked caps. Similarly detailed end pilasters. Band-course; tooled ashlar parapets slightly splayed approaches. Approximate width of arches; 48', 55', 48'. Drystone embankments flank bridge. — Telford Bridge built at Torgoyle circa 1811; destroyed by flood damage in 1818. Replaced firstly by temporary wooden bridge, and then in 1823 by present structure redesigned by Telford's principal inspector, Joseph Mitchell. Appears on OS as Torgoyle Bridge.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.